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How to use politely in a sentence

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I again politely declined, but was good enough to point him in Fester's direction so he could be pestered about the non-functional video screen.
They greeted me with a hug and then politely exchanged handshakes with Jake.
For once, however, the skewers had been properly soaked before they hit the grill and could therefore be politely shared out.
A welcoming friend, he would always look at a manuscript or sit up for hours to listen politely to a barmy argument.
I typed a politely worded memo to his physicians, giving a bit of advice on how to care for him.
Aaron toes the ground with sincere humility, politely waiting out the pleasantries so he can get back to the field.
If he was awake and saw me he would spring up, bow low and kiss my hand, enquiring politely after Bulent Bey Efendi and myself.
I would go with my dad to awards banquets, where we would politely eat cold chicken, hard green peas, and a block of Neapolitan ice cream.
In town, Julia dares to ask Cole to lunch with her family, and is embarrassed when he politely turns her down.
The small audience of midweek drinkers applauds politely as he and his band play Madonna covers.
He wrote back, politely pointing out that I had misquoted him and inviting me to lunch.
He said all this politely, but there was something unfeeling and mocking in his tone.
When the phone is eventually answered, I'm politely told that, because they're so busy, they can't deal with any queries.
To my surprise, she was actually twiddling her thumbs while looking around herself, a politely bored expression on her face.
Unfortunately, his feelings were unreciprocated, and Mrs. McKensey had been politely fending off his amorous advances ever since.
Top-hatted footmen guard the entrances, sneering politely at the clientele and keeping the passing rabble at bay.
It was said that people sat through two complete showings but the usherettes politely asked them to leave.
Somewhere, I have a bunch of photos I took in London of signs politely and verbosely requesting the viewer's compliance.
She politely told him to bug off and returned to the breakfast table to finish the comics.
He waited until she was out of breath and the collar of her shirt was vinaceous with blood, and politely offered help.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Dr. Staines politely ignored her little attempts to interrupt the argument.
Then he politely asked Uncle Peter to show Mrs. Drelmer and himself through the stamp mill.
Everybody smiled politely, as people do over the inanities of a very cheerful and hospitable host.
As she turned to relatch the gate the blind man endeavoured politely to anticipate her.
The King was much annoyed, but Talleyrand politely requested him and prier not to make so much noise about the fortresses.
Yet he did exactly as the little man in the red cloak had so politely asked him.
Greeting me, however, cheerfully and politely, she at once entered into conversation.
They came to the tollgate, which was politely opened and closed again without their having to get down from the sledge.
He proceeded to explain, compendiously, his doings of the past week, to which the girl listened politely.
He politely tendered his open snuff-box, of which I partook, experimentally.
And a red ant came up, and very politely asked if she might not pick up the crumbs which the old rabbit dropped.
I received her as politely as I could, because I think she was sorry she dared me to walk a ridgepole.
He sat down opposite the co-ordinator and assumed a politely questioning look.
On our arrival at Montego Bay the captain took me home to his house, and treated me very politely.
Addington politely hinted that the words were unparliamentary, but suggested that the Minister should give an explanation.
But it was provoking to be flouted, so politely too, by that whelp of the Golden Dog!
I don't like to say things like that, though I'm sure I always try to say them politely.
And turning to directional Stability, she politely asked him what he preferred to do.
The type who to-day has become politely a speeder up was then the man with the whip.
She politely asks him whether he is not a philosophe, and whether philosophy is not a very beautiful thing?
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